Configuring tags-on view

[keberlein]

Product: XMetal Author Enterprise, Version#: 6.0.1.030
OS: Windows 7 Enterprise, English

How can I configure the tags-on view so that <indexterm> elements are displayed as block-level elements?

Kristen James Eberlein
SDL Structured Content Technologies

[gcrews]

I think you would have to modify/customize/override the CSS. I tried changing the display to block on [class~="topic/indexterm"] but didn’t have any luck

[Derek Read]

For each topic type (task, topic, etc) that you wish to change add a CSS override setting to the corresponding CSS file for that type.

For "task" the file is here (and for others the file is in a folder at the same level that has a name corresponding to the DTD name):

<XMetaL Install Path>\Author\DITA\XACs\task\task_ditabase-specialized.css

[class~="topic/indexterm"] {
   display: block;
}


Depending on where your <indexterm> elements are located you may also need to make a change to this (more specific) CSS setting:

[class~="topic/keywords"] [class~="topic/indexterm"] {
   display: inline;
}

If you need to make this styling change for all topic types it may be easier to modify the main CSS file. That is located here:
<XMetaL Install Path>\Author\DITA\XACs\shared\ditabase-base.css

Look for the following and make the change to "block" from "inline" there:

/* indexterm {*/
[class~="topic/indexterm"] {
   display: inline;
   color: #AAAAAA;
}

Other settings related to <indexterm> also appear nearby in the same file, the other "<indexterm> when a child of <keywords>" selector () is located a few selectors below that one (ie: [class~="topic/keywords"] [class~="topic/indexterm"]).

Note that this will work for 6.0.1.030 and 6.0.2.070 but we may change the way the CSS files are configured in future releases.